Site Stats Lagging About an Hour Behind

I just encountered this problem this morning. As of about 1020, the total site views in the stat counter froze for about 30 minutes, then slowly began to count again, but at a rate about 40 minutes behind actual time.

The hours still rolled over, but showed zero for the current hour until the previous one filled up.

Our stats are not real time stats. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and note the views and viewers take hours to update. Also note that those who follow your blog in the Reader or by email don’t have to click into the blog unless they wish to.

Likes and shares and reblogs and follows are not page views. In fact, likes, shares and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats. Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com blog who is logged into WordPress.com can “follow” your blog, “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat.

You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here > Settings > Reading. Choose the “summary” setting for your RSS feed rather than to “full text”. That will compel followers who are not using mobiles to click into the blog to read the full post which will create a page view stat.

I wouldn’t be concerned but that’s because I’m not a stats watcher. I usually check mine once or twice daily. As you are concerned I’ll tag this thread for Staff to check your stats. Please subscribe to this thread and be patient while waiting.

I do not see any third party counter to compare your WordPress.COM stats to.

Some advice you did not ask for, your blog is slow to load and hard to navigate down the front page. Slow loading times turn off visitors and search engines. Consider using the More Tag to make your site load quicker and navigation easier.

Both @timethief & I use the More Tag very aggressively on our sites to make the sites easier to navigate and understand

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